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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (48790)	4/5/2005 8:39:50 PM
From: Rick	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 59480

I read the New York Times every day for decades. I must have been one of their most loyal readers. At first, I just skipped the editorials I found one-sided (after all, they had the right to speak their mind in an editorial); then I began skipping all the letters to the editor that always seemed to supported the biased editorials; then I began skipping the op-ed pieces that always seemed to support the letters to the editor and editorials I found wanting; then I began skipping the front-page crusades that always seemed to support the op-ed pieces, letters and editorials I found bigoted. Then I skipped the Sunday magazine articles that always seemed to supported the front-page crusades, op-ed pieces, letters to the editor and editorials I found one-sided. Then I began skipping the political hit-pieces that always seemed to find wonderful liberal/ridiculous conservative quotes that supported their Sunday magazine articles, front-page crusades, op-ed pieces, letters to the editor and editorials that I found extremely narrow-minded. I still felt that whatever was left was better than any other paper in the U.S. But their bias just spread faster than even I could manage. The last straw was a review of a biography of Ulysses Simpson Grant, of all people. For reasons only a New York Times editor could understand the reviewers sole qualification was listed as being a close friend of Woody Allen. And of course, he just had to work in not one but two completely uncalled for attacks at President Bush. Something about U. S. Grant showing more concern for the common people's welfare than Bush did, what with the price of oil being what it was. That was it, I cancelled my subscription the next day. It was just too much work doing what their editors wouldn’t. - Rick